Ex Parte Le Mond

Daisie LeMond, petitioner, has sued out of this court a writ ofhabeas corpus seeking her discharge from imprisonment in the city jail of the city of St. Louis, where she claims to be unlawfully imprisoned at the order of Honorable John W. Calhoun, Judge of the Circuit Court of the City of St. Louis, Division No. 16. The writ was directed to Charles E. Mohrstadt, Sheriff of the City of St. Louis, who has made return thereto. Pending a determination of the cause by this court, petitioner has been released upon bond.

The facts can best be gathered from the petition, which, after reciting that…